Rob and Guilhem--- Let me do a little research on LC_MEASUREMENT. That might be a great way to pick up initial values for the preferences (when they haven't already been set). I also think the separate units for x- and y-axis distance units from z-axis distance units seems to make sense. I'm assuming (having not looked at it) that there's a method for determining if a given preference hasn't been assigned a value. I'll check on that.
To Rob's point about scaling, that's a issue. In metric units, at somewhere around a thousand meters, the units should switch to km. At somewhere around 5280 feet, units should go from feet to miles. This feels like two separate feature enhancements, if I have a little time later today, I'm going to post them as feature requests and assign them to myself. Having not done this on this system, I'll assume I can figure that out. ---gregh On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 21:18 +0100, Robert Norris wrote: > > Personally I want control over each of the different axis: I want distances > in miles, but heights in metres. > Think of the controls most GPS devices give the user. > > The defaults could be set from LC_MEASUREMENT on first program run. > > Secondly if one does use metric values, large distance values aren't handled > to well. For example 1234.5 m isn't clear to me. I think the display should > change to kilometers -> 1.2 km. > NB heights should always stay in metres, not km. > > Any work in this area is greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
